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IINTTnn STATES PATENT Grrrcn.

JOHN IV. PRICE, OF BELFAST, WASI'IINGTGN.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,354, dated December 20, 1898.

Application filed January 3, 1898. Serial No. 666,309. (No model.)

1'0 CLM 'Lu/wut it' may concern:

3e it known that I, JOHN IV. PRICE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Belfast, in the county of Skagit, State of lllashington, have invented a new, safe, and useful Contrivance and Improvement for Coupling Railway-Cars, of which the following is a description and specification.

My invention relates to improvements .in automatic car-couplers; and the objects of my invention are to provide a coupler that will set itself ready for coupling when the coupling-link is withdrawn and that will act automatically to couple the cars when they are brought together.

IVith these objects in view my invention consists in the construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is alongitudinal sectional view taken on the line l l of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

A represents the body of the coupling, provided with the aperture d, the perforation d' for the reception of the link-pin b, and the perforations d2 cts, extending from the laperture d through the lower part of the coupling. The perforations d', a2, and d3 are in a straight line at the rear. Mounted in a groove a, cut in the floor of the aperture d, is a pin-support C. This, as shown in Fig. 2, consists of two vertical parts or arms c', two horizontal parts c, two vertical parts c2, and a horizontal connectin g part c3. The parts c are rounded and act as an axle, on which the pin-support turns. The parts c are either weighted or else made of heavier material than the rest of the support, so that the tendency of the supportwill be to assume the position shown in Fig. 2.

The slot a4 is shaped so as to receive the pin-support when it is thrown back into a horizontal position by the coupling-link D when the cars are pushed together. The perforations co2 and a3 are of sufficient size and of suitable shape to permit the free movement of the arms c' of the pin-support C.

lVhen it is desired to uncouple the cars, one

of the pins B is lifted, either directly by hand shown and described, as it is obvious thatl many changes might be made without departa ing from the spirit of my invention.

I'Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. In a car-coupler, the combination with an apertured and perforated body, having a horizontal groove and a vertical groove at each end of the said horizontal groove; of a pin in the said perforation, and a pin-support consisting of a horizontal portion mounted in the said horizontal groove beneath the said pin, a vertical portion to support the said pin, and weighted arms depending into the said vertical grooves substantially as described.

2. In a car-coupler, the combination with an apertured and perforated body, having a horizontal groove and a vertical groove at each end of the said horizontal groove; of a pin in the said perforation, and a pin-support consisting of a horizontal portion mounted in the said horizontal groove beneath the said pin, a vertical rectangular portion to support the said pin, and .weighted arms depending into the said vertical grooves, substantially as described.

JOHN w. PRICE.

IVitnesses:

E. S. MoCoRD, A. F. TEMPLIN. 

